Best Emotional Blindside: Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
Best Title, Backed Up by Excellent Memoir: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Best One-Sitting Read: Foster by Claire Keegan
Best Ending of an Amazing Book About Endings: All the Living and the Dead
Best Dressed Protagonist: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Best Whiplash Between Tragedy and Raucous Comedy: Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Best Feminist Period Piece that I Loved So Much I Wanted to Marry It: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Best Book About 90s Gaming and So Much More: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Best Made-Me-Physically-Ill but Worth it Book: What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
Best “How the Fuck is Stuff Like This Still Happening?” Book: How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
